Melts in your mouth AND in your hand

I thought I was being smart. This year, instead of baking cookies, I planned on making candy for my Christmas treats, particularly truffles. I've worked with chocolate before, but somehow I always forget how tedious it is to work with it. These are the things I've (re)realized tonight:

1. It's a pain to chop chocolate.
2. After chopping, it gets everywhere.
3. Tempering is annoying.
4. Chocolate is extremely messy to work with as it melts by just touching it.

We'll see how the rest of the process goes!